Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 19, 1999, 22:07 |
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> I remember a girl in German class who was given the Dutch translation
> of a well-known German nonsense poem to translate as a punishment
> (this was a very unusual teacher; he also used to deal out poetry to
> memorise as punishment, and I once missed four months of German class
> because I stubbornly refused to do it, convinced as I was of my
> innocence). This girl, after much hedging about and blushing, managed
How far the muses have fallen! Poetry is now punishment. Sick sick life.